A regular meeting of
Space Center Rotary was held at Bay Oaks Country Club.
Dr. Jack Bacon lead members in song, President David
Coney gave the prayer, Dr. Ted Cummings lead
in the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag,
and Constable Phil Sandlin lead in the Four
Way Test. Dr. Greg Smith introduced visitors and
guests. District 5890 Governor Elect Chris Schneider
(right) and District 5890 Governor Nominee Bob
Gebhard were among the guests.
Chris brought several
other guests,
Andre's Schneider and Joe Geronimo both from New Jersey, and
Andreas Koettnite and Monfred Dehnen both from Germany.
Diane
Savage, (right) President & CEO, announced Bay
Area Turning Point (BATP) will reach an Agency milestone this
fall: two decades of saving and restoring lives—75,312 women,
children and men to be exact. Space Center Rotary is one
of the Agency’s earliest supporters and continues to be a
Partner in our efforts today. Space
Center Rotary’s Partnership helps to ensure that our programs remain
strong for those who rely on us 24-hours a
day, every day to rebuild a shattered life. Of the
$3,000 generously donated to BATP on June 6, $2,000 will be
applied to the Space center Rotary Partnership gift with BATP
and $1,000 will be announced as an Underwriter to the Agency’s
upcoming special event! The Club donated $5,000 to help
build the original facility in 1992.
Past District Governor Suzi Howe inducted
new member Keith Owens
(right) sponsored by Olive
Murphy-Riker. Keith is employed by Prudential Gary Greene
Realtors. President Coney awarded $1,000 "Service Above Self"
scholarship to two Interact students based on achieving
academic excellence, exhibiting outstanding leadership in
community outreach, and actively involved in extra
curricular activities. Read more about these two
outstanding students; Sara
Maben and Siddharth
Arora.
John Branch introduced Jim
Sweeney as the
program speaker. Jim along with his partner and wife of
28 years, Jane, has owned and operated Minuteman Press-Bay
Area, a full service printing company in the Clear Lake
area. Jim has very recently started up a new company,
Big Daddy Marketing, LLC, a Managed Marketing Services
company. Jim gave a preseetnation on QR Code.
A QR code
(abbreviation for Quick Response code) is a specific matrix
barcode (or two-dimensional code) that is readable by
dedicated QR barcode readers and camera telephones. The code
consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a
white background. The information encoded may be text, URL, or
other data. Common in Japan, where it was created by
Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994,
the QR code
is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional
barcodes. The QR code was created to allow
its contents to be decoded at high speed. The
technology has seen frequent use in Japan and South Korea, however,
in the West there has been a slower adoption of
QR codes.
President
Coney gave Jim an engraved Rotary paper weight and adjourned the meeting.
Work at Hope Village Begins
Installing a wall to
make a large storage room in the recreation building at Hope
Village began last week. Phil Messarra, Friendswood
Rotary Club and frequent visitor to our Club, headed up the
project. The new room is 30 by 12 feet and will be used
as an additional storage in the recreation building.
Currently miscellaneous material, chairs, and props from stage
plays were scattered throughout the building making it
difficult to use the exercise
equipment
(more photos will be
in a later issue). Phil Harris brought eleven
of his associates to help clean up, straighten up, organize,
and fix up the building. As President Coney said “they
were awesome”. Finishing work remains to be done, but
the recreation building is now well organized and
useable.
Shrimporee is October 15
Keep
your calendars open
Planning has
started
Marilyn Musial is the Chair
Sheryl Berg is the
CoChair
